CodeIgniter & Some Plugs

October 24th, 2008 by ReAn

CodeIgniter (Link) is a wonderfull Content Managment Framework developed as OSS by EllisLab. I stumbled upon this gem a couple years ago while looking for a set of libraries to begin the development of a website.

Recently I’ve published two websites LANified! & Missing the Point using this framework and so far it’s not only aided in increasing the development speed, but has taught me a few things about web-development in the process.


The most significant feature CodeIgniter (CI) offers over traditional php development is a robust MVC architecture. CI Splits the development of your site into Models (Data Access Objects), Views (Templates), and Controllers (Core Logic) which allows you to be very modular. You can easily access the code to display components of your site and change them without affecting how the data is gathered & organized.

With this convention you can easily program logic & data-access witha skeleton display and update it as your web-designer pushes new revisions of the site-design. Or if you’re doing it yourself, you can get a completely functional website before working on the design.

CI gives developers the tools to do what they need with tested standards and a flexible environment. You can write custom libraries & plugins for the framework which expand it’s functionality greatly. This allows you to focus on the development of the site and not get stuck around that pesky SQL bug.

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